New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Completed: 1939
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Description
Springfield [Pond] Park was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and were “turned over to the Park Department” on August 18, 1939.
“A three-acre lake, once a mosquito-breeding swamp, is the center of the Springfield Gardens development,” wrote The New York Times, “which embraces seventeen and one-half acres and includes an athletic field, a football gridiron, two basketball courts, two softball diamonds and more than 100 shade trees.”
Source notes
The New York Times: "City Acquires Two Parks Built by WPA in Queens," August 19, 1939 (pg. 1)
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 27, 2018.
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